Indian opener Virender Sehwag said Tuesday he was against a “catches pact” with Ricky Ponting’s Australia in the upcoming Test series after bitter memories of the last tour Down Under.
“We suffered the most in the catches pact during the last series,” Sehwag told a sports channel ahead of the four-match series starting in Bangalore on […]
Visitors Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) fast bowler Imran Ali ruined Ranji champions Delhi’s opening day of the domestic season with six wickets including a hat-trick in his first ever game on Indian soil at the Feroz Shah Kotla here on Monday.
Delhi, packed with international stars, were folded out for a measly 134 on […]
Virender Sehwag may have become part of the elite seniors in the team but he is still in awe of the ‘Fab Four’ of Indian cricket.
“Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman are great players. Each of them have been around for more than a decade and have delivered whenever the team required, […]
Sri Lankan mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis says that swashbuckling right-hander Virender Sehwag was the only Indian batsman he found difficult to bowl to in the recently-concluded India’s tour of Sri Lanka.
“There was not much of a difference in bowling to most of the Indian batsmen. Their style was similar. But Virender Sehwag was the toughest […]
India’s opener Virender Sehwag has been ruled out of the ongoing One-day series against Sri Lanka due to an ankle injury.
Sehwag missed the opening ODI of the five-match series on Monday after failing to recover from the injury, sustained during a nets on Sunday evening. In his place, Virat Kohli made his India debut.
India skipper […]
Sri Lanka beat India by eight wickets in the first ODI at Dambulla and took a 1-0 lead in the five match series.
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After having won the toss, India elected to bat first but were crippled from the start itself as dashing opener Virender Sehwag was missing in action due to an ankle injury sustained in […]
India won the toss against Sri Lanka in the first ODI at Dambulla and elected to bat first. The major change for India was the absence of Virender Sehwag as he hurt his ankle in the nets on Sunday and is thus missing the game. In his place Virat Kohli made his ODI debut for […]
India will be badly hit for the first ODI against Sri Lanka as their dashing opener Virender Sehwag might not be able to play in the match due to an injury scare.
Sehwag was hit on the ankles during a session in the nets and is sure to miss the first match as a result. The […]
Sri Lanka and India go head to head in a five match ODI series from tomorrow. The first two matches are day games that will be played in Dambulla while the next three matches are day night games to played in the Premdasa Stadium in Colombo.
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Sri Lanka seem to have tabs on the Indian team […]
Riding high on Yuvraj Singh’s century, India won the only practice match ahead of the five match ODI series against Sri Lanka XI at Colombo.Yuvraj hit 8 fours and 13 sixes in his 172 off 121 balls and was involved in a 40 ball 99 run partnership with MS Dhoni as India piled up 342 […]
India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar has dropped to his lowest ranking in 15 years in the ICC rankings for Test batsmen after a disappointing series against Sri Lanka.
Tendulkar, who started the series in the 13th position, finished in 23rd place after scoring 95 runs at 15.83. He drops six places after scores of six and […]
India could not have asked for a better beginning on day one of the third test match at Colombo when they won the toss on a placid wicket with a chance to fight the Lankan spinners and put up a huge total. And they started off well again with Sehwag and Gambhir putting up 51 […]
Day one of the final Test match of the Idea Cup between India and Sri Lanka went to the 2 new bowlers of Sri Lanka. Mendis and Prasad outsmarted India on all occassions to send the Indians back in the pavilion for just 249 runs. The top and middle order failed yet again with the […]
India batted first after winning the toss on a placid pitch at Colombo in the third test against Sri Lanka. The pitch was devoid of any dangers as had been predicted earlier by the pitch curator all week.
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India made only one change to their eleven with Parthiv Patel coming in for Dinesh Karthik. Parthiv is […]
Sri Lanka and India will be playing the third test at the historical P Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo from tomorrow. This is the same ground where the Lankans beat the Indians for the first time in tests in their history in the 80s. Also since test cricket returned here in 2002, the home team haven’t […]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is back from his award winning rest and will lead India’s 16-man squad for the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan are back in the side too after their respective hiatuses from the sport, while Yuvraj Singh is back too after missing the bus for […]
India avenged their defeat in the first test by registering a 170 run victory against Sri Lanka at Galle and that too inside four days.
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Set 301 to win the match and with two days to play, Sri Lanka were never in it after they faltered from the very beginning of the chase as they lost […]
Sri Lanka fought to 215 for 5 at the end of the day’s play in the second test match against India at Galle.
The hosts lost opener Michael Vandort in the very first over but recovered to some extent through a 133-run second wicket partnership between Malinda Warnapura (66) and Kumar Sangakkara (68) even though they […]
India’s opening ace Virender Sehwag struck yet another double hundred, the third of his career so far as India folded up for 329 in their first innings on day two of the second test match in Galle.
Sehwag became only the second Indian batsman to carry his bat through out the innings after Sunil Gavaskar as […]
Indian vice-captain Virender Sehwag on Thursday said all the batsmen fell to good balls though the wicket was playing well.
“(Sachin) Tendulkar, Rahul (Dravid), Sourav (Ganguly) all fell to good balls so you cannot do anything about it. They (Sri Lanka) have quality bowlers,” Sehwag said after the first day’s play in which India lost its […]